Desiree of Sweden-Norway

Desiree of Sweden-Norway (8 November 1777-17 December 1860), born Bernardine Eugenie Desiree Clary, was the Queen of Sweden-Norway from 1818 to 1844. Desiree was originally the fiancee of Napoleon Bonaparte, but married Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, who became Charles XIV of Sweden in 1818.

Biography
Bernardine Eugene Desiree Clary was the daughter of a Marsellaise silk manufacturing merchant and sister of the future Maria Julia I of Spain. She became the fiancee of Napoleon Bonaparte at one point, but later became the wife of (Emperor) Napoleon's marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. When Bernadotte became "Karl XIV Johan of Sweden-Norway" in 1818, she became titular Queen of Sweden-Norway. She died in 1860 in Norway, sixteen years after her husband.